In article <38qrprINN2…@rs1.rrz.uni-koeln.de>,
Martin Weidner <mweidner@spinfo1> wrote:
>While German is still an SOV Language other languages like English
>or French have been SOV and changed
>to SVO. I’d like to write a paper  of the reasons for this development.
>Does anybody know, if there are papers / books (especially in the
>background of generative grammar) concerning this problem

Another book that has some good discussions of this issue (long
with alot of other good stuff) is:

Principles of Historical Linguistics, 2nd Edition
by Hans Henrich Hock

Hmm, there are two ISBN’s on the cover:
        ISBN 3 11012962 0
        ISBN 0 89925851 4
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